Carnot, Sadi 1796-1832 creator Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron 1824-1907 Carnot, H. (Hippolyte) 1801-1888 Thurston, Robert Henry 1839-1903 text utu 2026 Second, revised, edition. monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire and on Machines Fitted to Develop that Power (French: Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu et sur les machines propres à développer cette puissance) is a scientific treatise written by the French military engineer Sadi Carnot. Published in 1824 in French, the short book (118 pages in the original) sought to advance a rational theory of heat engines. At the time, heat engines had acquired great technological and economic importance, but very little was understood about them from the point of view of physics. Carnot's Reflections is now widely regarded as a key document in the development of modern thermodynamics, and Carnot himself (who published nothing else during his lifetime) has often been identified as the "father of thermodynamics". The book introduced such concepts as thermodynamic efficiency, reversible processes, the thermodynamic cycle, and Carnot's theorem. (This summary is from Wikipedia.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflections_on_the_Motive_Power_of_Fire Release date is 2026-05-05 Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Originally published: New York: J. Wiley, 1890 Thermodynamics QC New York: J. Wiley, 1890 https://archive.org/details/reflectionsonmot00carnrich https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78610 https://archive.org/details/reflectionsonmot00carnrich https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78610 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134825.0 78610